The Return of the State: Recovering State Efficacy for Global Solutions (Features‪)‬

If there is one important trend that seems likely to shape world order over the coming decades, it is the "return of the state." This may be an unfashionable thing to claim because the state is not an important new idea, but rather an important old one. And what has been in vogue in discussions of globalization has been to claim that something excitingly new has replaced or sidelined the state and its traditional role in the international system: novel networked technologies, cross-border financial flows, transnational regulatory regimes, or non-state terrorist violence. All these dynamics not only challenge the administrative capacity of the state itself but also pose an intellectual rebuff to the idea of the global order as a necessarily state-led one. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]